In all the handbooks (at least the ones I checked) I found that the bootstrapping and the emerging of the base system is skipped. Instead the handbook directly jumps to kernel configuration. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-amd64.xml?part=1&chap=6 Actual Results: No bootstrapping and base system emerging found in the handbook. Expected Results: Expected to find a chapter about bootstrapping and merging the base system before kernel configuration. N/A
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/index.xml#doc_chap4_sect2 http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/faq.xml#stage12